The New York State Department of Civil Service has announced the following IT Series examinations. Employees in the CIO Division are strongly encouraged to apply for all exams for which they qualify. Your placement on Civil Service eligible lists increases your employment and promotional opportunities.

When filing your online application, be aware there is no technical assistance on weekends, or after 5 PM on weekdays.

The purpose of this post is to familiarize you with some ground rules regarding this website. Please read it in its entirety and let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

This is not an official site of OITS, PEF, Civil Service, or any other group. It is run by Sarah Lauser for free use by all New York State IT Specialists.

There may be study session information posted at some point. All study sessions may have different registration requirements but it is important that you read the announcement and follow its instructions. Emails to Sarah to reserve spots will NOT be accepted.

If you would like to organize additional sessions and announce them via this site, please let me know and I am happy to assist.

THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION IS PROHIBITED ON THIS SITE:

Material from previous exams

Material from “experts” who may have helped to write questions

Copyrighted material (unless you have permission from the owner)
This includes CSEA booklets!

I’ve had a few questions about where to find the CSEA booklets.
The books are (and always were) supposed to only be free for CSEA members.
PEF members are supposed to purchase the books from CSEA.

If you visit http://csealearningcenter.org, hard copies can be ordered on the online store or digital downloads are available if you sign up for online courses.
Subscribing to the online courses is the ONLY legitimate way for PEF members to obtain digital copies of these booklets.

A few people have emailed me with links they found by searching on the internet.
Some CSEA locals apparently make the booklets available on their websites without requiring member signin.

I obviously can’t control what you search or which links you visit, but I’m not doing anything to enable people to break copyright.
Therefore, I will not condone sharing those links on this site or any sites I control.